You Will Anyway: Kelly Loeffler again

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Kelly Loeffler again

UPDATE: HOLD THE PRESSES - see update below...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job of secretary of the Department of Agriculture, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.

He is set to meet with her at Mar-a-Lago Friday afternoon, but as is always the case, nothing is final until Trump announces it.

CNN

And sometimes, not even then.

January 2021

Trump told people that he wanted David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to lose the Georgia Senate runoff election as a way of punishing them and Mitch McConnell. “Trump told people he is really angry that the senators and McConnell hadn’t stood up for him to challenge the election. He’s happy they lost.”

Vanity Fair

Surely the election was rigged? How could this woman not win?

September 2020...

May I ask...I know she did what she could to help overturn the election from her seat in Georgia, is a gun rights advocate, opposes transgender rights, and that she married big money, but what does Kelly Loeffler have to do with agriculture? Oh, I see. She was raised on a farm. I guess that makes me qualified for that position, too.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07:56 pm: I don't know who "expected" Trump to nominate Loeffler, but they were wrong. Maybe he just wanted CNN to look like they don't have good information.

Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to be agriculture secretary.

[...]

In response to her nomination, Rollins wrote on X: “Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It will be the honor of my life to fight for America’s farmers and our Nation’s agricultural communities. This is big stuff for a small-town ag girl from Glen Rose, TX — truly the American Dream at its greatest.”

She added: “Who’s ready to make agriculture great again!”

Guardian

Eyeroll.

The America First Policy Institute is a right-leaning thinktank whose personnel have worked closely with Trump’s campaign to help shape policy for his incoming administration. Rollins chaired the Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term.

At least she has a connection to agriculture. She has a BS in agricultural development from Texas A&M. But more likely to have impressed Trump is that she was Cotton Bowl Classic Queen in 2007.

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